Beaded necklace “Air”

Handicraft techniques / Beading / Beaded decoration 16 733 2

This necklace looks very unusual. It is often difficult to even understand at first glance how the beads hold together. At the same time, it is very simple to implement. You may not be able to knit or know the tricks of beading, but you can make this jewelry in a few free evenings. The balloon necklace looks great with both business suits and summer sundresses. The main thing here is to choose the right color for the decoration. By combining several shades, you can achieve an original effect. And woven glass bead elements will add a little sparkle.

Materials for work:

beads – 3-4 shades;
fishing line - at least 10 m;
accessories for jewelry (lobster clasp, ring, tips - 2 pcs., pin with eye - 2 pcs.);
round nose pliers;
hook – 4 mm.

Instructions for implementation.
First we need to prepare a beaded thread, which will serve as our base. To do this, we collect beads of various shades in a chaotic order. There is no point in typing a specific pattern here. The beauty of decoration lies in the mixture of shades.

For the presented necklace you will need 2 - 3 meters of bead thread. When the fishing line is collected, do not cut it from the reel.At the very beginning, we make a small loop and secure it with a knot. Next, we begin crocheting air loops.

We knit beads into each new loop: one or several beads. You can also skip them and leave the loops empty, without beads.

While knitting, we move the beads along the fishing line, unwinding it little by little from the spool. We knit our openwork thread until we run out of beads on the fishing line.

At this stage you need to act very carefully. The thread may become tangled. To prevent this from happening, you can wrap the blank around a book.

It is convenient to assemble the necklace on any soft surface, such as a sofa cushion. We stick two rows of pins into it. The distance between them downwards is 1 cm. In length – the required width of the decoration. But it is worth considering that each next row should be 1 cm longer.

Now we wrap our knitted thread with beads around the pins.

We collect the ends together on one pin and tie them with fishing line.

We bend the eye on the hardware pin, put a bunch of beaded fishing line on it, and bend the eye back.

We put the tip on the pin, bend its edges so that they fit tightly to the bead threads.

We string several beads onto a pin. This will slightly increase the length of the product. We bend the pin with pliers, forming a loop. We repeat on the other side.